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A Comparison of Two Doctoral Dissertations

Side-by-side comparison of the Hindt (2012) dissertation and an earlier source dissertation. Every matched passage is presented with page numbers cited on both sides.


64

Matched passages

1,502

Identical words

25

Pages containing matches


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The exhibit lays out every matched passage in aligned columns with page-level citations, a page-density map, and links to the underlying Hindt dissertation pages.

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Source documents

Document A · Source dissertation

Rowland, Keith A.

TitleThe Relationship of Principal Leadership and Teacher Morale

InstitutionLiberty University, School of Education

DegreeDoctor of Education

Year2008

ChairClarence C. Holland, Ed.D.

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Document B · Hindt dissertation

Hindt, Lawrence A.

TitleThe Effects of Principal Leadership on Teacher Morale and Student Achievement

InstitutionUniversity of Houston, College of Education

DegreeDoctor of Education in Professional Leadership

Year2012

DeanDr. Robert H. McPherson, Dean, College of Education

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How this comparison was produced

Candidate matches were generated by scanning both dissertations for overlapping passages, then filtered to remove categories of overlap that would not fairly count as substantive copying.

Exclusion buckets

  • front matter 2
  • too short 79
  • boilerplate 0
  • no specifics 20
  • duplicate 2

Full methodology, exclusion rules, and passage-level source data ship with the exhibit as static JSON (matches.json, kept.json, excluded.json, paraphrase.json, density.json) at /exhibits/dissertation/.